Thomas Jewusiak

Artist’s Statement
Although often described as a photorealist I reject the description of the style of my painting as photorealistic. I make no attempt to duplicate a photograph. Although there can be a valid artistic point in doing this, it is decidedly not my point. I attempt to communicate a reality or rather an illusion of actuality, as perceived by the eye and mind that is more intense, more concentrated than that which can be captured by the camera and lens alone. I also attempt a more honest portrayal of what is real than can be than produced by the simple photograph. Since many of my paintings are purely conceptual, existing originally only in the imagination, or as a distillation or manipulation of many separate scenes that may exist, did exist or I think existed, the charge of “merely” duplicating a photograph is particularly galling. By representing the finest detail in paint I attempt to foster the illusion, (or foist the illusion), to give a perceived concrete existence to a pure product of the interpretive imagination. The sometimes excruciating detail is fundamental to the intended impression, a sleight of hand (or eye), where we are perhaps distracted by the minutia, enamored of it and thus lulled into a forgetfulness that the whole is artifice, an elaborate construct that takes on a life entirely its own, an exaggerated reality so real that it seems dream-like, a dream more real than waking.w

American Old Mill

This oil on linen canvas painting depicts an old water mill which still stands in Clinton, New Jersey. Available as a limited edition archival giclee on canvas embellished in oil:$219.00, 14x18 in.
$8,600.00
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American Country Barn

This scene is inspired by the beautiful countryside of the North Eastern United States and its many old farms that have been ''restored'' to an ideal that never existed, a wholesale recreation much in the spirit of Colonial Williamsburg.
$6,900.00
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County Court House

This oil on linen canvas painting is a vision of small town America, the old County Court House, which is vanishing even as I paint. Something resembling this can still be seen in the town of Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey.
$6,800.00
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Catskill Falls

This scene is inspired by the incomparable natural beauty of the landscapes of the Pocono Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania and the Catskill Mountains of New York. Available as a unique oil embellished archival giclee on canvas limited edition.
$12,000.00
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Marina

This oil on linen canvas painting was inspired by the numerous small marinas that dot the waterways of Florida. Also available as a unique signed limited edition archival giclee on canvas embellished in oil starting at $219.00, depending on size
$6,290.00
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Winter Park Street Scene

This oil on linen canvas painting was suggested by a street scene in Winter Park, Florida. Also available as a unique signed limited edition archival giclee on canvas embellished in oil starting at $219.00, depending on size.
$5,990.00
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